The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-04-17
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN.
Some Suggestions to the. Plain Sisterhood-
About House-Cleaning Styles.
For the Ugly Girls.

For the Ugly Girls.
New York Graphic.
The advice that I mean is not complete
Book for Ugly Girls but general awakening
to the possibilities of oneself and determine
ton to foster those possibilities to the utmost
Good skin; perfect skin. Good hair; immaculate
hair. Good eyes, clear, healthy. happy eyes,
Good mouth; clear teeth and happy curl to the
corner Good figure tight gowns. Bad figure
artistic gowns and trust to luck for the craze
to last.
Oh, an ugly woman is to be envied rather than
pitied if she know which side is her best side.
In the first place. other women won't get jealous
of her, same as they do of pretty women, with
out rhyme reason. In the second place, she
will be forgiven her extra care for herself with
blunt thought perhaps unfattering-"Poor
thing she needs it ALL And last but not least,
if she be human same most of US are, every
triumph will be balm to her soul, doub1y sweet
because of the disadvantages of the case.
Another thing, there is deadly fascination
about sweettempered and clever ugly woman.
You are continually growing cool with the idea
that at least she no longer pleases you, then
growing hot when doubly brilliant-her flashes
of fascination. like Macauays flashes OF silence,
prove utterly irresistible.
Oh. no! do not pity the ugly woman provided
she is wise. Those that love ner lover her twice
we'll merely pretty woman is ever loved,
and she knows it. They appreciate the clever
does she.
But when we find an ugly woman who has,
as 1t were, left all hope behind, what are we
to dog
1t is an uppromisne situation is it notl And
nothing Is to be done except talk Talk Is like
the proverbial rain to these ugly ducks 1t may.
however, like that, set them awhile later to
pluming themselves
be missionary is the natural shyness of this
young heather. A girl who has been hooted at
by her brothers and excused ana apologized for
by the feminine members of her household Is
not apt TO be oyerburdened with conceit: in fact
she is apt to be anything else from painfully
bashful to downright bad -tempered.
Here, thei.. will come in we'll good dose OF
my usual panacaa-common sense. Common
sense will do more towards making ones life
and lot agreeable than anything else
Tell ugly girl that the more she sulks and
wrinkles her forehead, and draws down the cor
ners of her mouth the ugler she will become
naturally. Tell her that the moro she elabo
| rates her complexion with red and white. the
more the world will think she has to. Tell hel
! the more she goes about lank and Gisheyelled
| the more palpabe will be the difference between
| her and girl whose features and clothes are
| equally regular. Teach her that all the world il
not alike, and that while she herself admires
| certain pretty woman there is every possibility
| that there are plenty of people to whom she. il
| she would, might seem perfec ton.
| Raise her ideas of herself, by any means Fill
| to her if necessary, but in some way another
| give her a little comfort and little common
| sense. Then she will be happy. and will repay
| your trouble by blossoming out like the
Do you think she will be vain2 She may and
| she may not. If she learns her lesson without
vanity, well and good, but if she cannot it is lit
| tie matter. A small amount of vanity is fal
| more good than harm to woman Possessin.
| none. she is apt to cheaper herself, mentally
| morally and physically aud a woman who un
| derrates herself ia a constant source of disap
| pointment. She is to me exactly ike the trou
| that rises to the fly a fsherman's hook-get
scared and drops like pebble to the bed of tn
| brook.
| The other kind of woman, the soft feminine
| sweet and ugly duck; what of her2 What doe.
| she Coz I'll tell you. II she cannot make her
| self twice as attractive as a pretter woman
| without sitting up nights to think over it-why
| she just sits up nights. That's ALL